ὑψηλός

From ὕψι (húpsi, “high”), ὕψος (húpsos, “height, summit”) +‎ -λός (-lós). Compare Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, whence Old Irish úasal, Welsh uchel and the first part of Gaulish Uxellodunum.

ῠ̔ψηλός • (hupsēlós) m (feminine ῠ̔ψηλή, neuter ῠ̔ψηλόν); first/second declension

1. high, lofty
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 5.13.9
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.426
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.384
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.110
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.97
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 732C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.5.4
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 6
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Eumenes 17
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 175D
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.29
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.4
   • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Collected Works 64
2. (figuratively) high, lofty, stately, proud
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.22
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.1
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.111
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 289E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 341E
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1230
   1. (of persons)
      • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 418
      • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 613
      • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 730
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 494D
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 7
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 174
      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 555
      • Metrodorus, Fragments 57
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 25
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Dion 4
   2. (of poets) sublime
      • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 40.2
      • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 43.3
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Lysias 13
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 10.12

• ῠ̔ψηλόκρημνος (hupsēlókrēmnos)

• Greek: ψηλός (psilós), υψηλός (ypsilós)

• “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὑψηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὑψηλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὑψηλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὑψηλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5308 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boastful idem, page 87.
  • braggart idem, page 93.
  • branching idem, page 93.
  • contemptuous idem, page 167.
  • disdainful idem, page 232.
  • grandiloquent idem, page 369.
  • haughty idem, page 388.
  • high idem, page 399.
  • highest idem, page 400.
  • hilly idem, page 400.
  • inflated idem, page 438.
  • lofty idem, page 497.
  • magniloquent idem, page 507.
  • majestic idem, page 508.
  • proud idem, page 653.
  • scornful idem, page 741.
  • sonorous idem, page 793.
  • sounding idem, page 796.
  • sublime idem, page 831.
  • supercilious idem, page 838.
  • swelling idem, page 848.
  • towering idem, page 884.
  • vain idem, page 942.